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Dennis Blair Set To Resign

Dennis Blair Set To Resign – BARACK Obama’s intelligence czar Dennis Blair will reportedly resign, after the top US spy apparently lost the full confidence of the White House.

Mr Blair, who as director of national intelligence co-ordinates 16 US intelligence agencies, met the President in the Oval Office on Thursday American time and offered to resign, and Mr Obama said he would accept, ABC News in the US reported.

Mr Obama had held “serious conversations” about whether to ask Mr Blair to step down and had interviewed possible replacements, the report said.

If confirmed, Mr Blair’s departure would be the most significant departure yet from Mr Obama’s administration and national security establishment during his 16 months in power.

Mr Blair’s departure would come after a rocky period which has seen questions raised over US intelligence, following the botched Christmas Day attack on a US airliner, the Fort Hood shootings and the foiled Times Square bombing.

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